Since college I have given my life to “speeding the day of the Lord’s return” (2 Pe 3:12) by researching and reporting what is proving most fruitful in discipling all nations (Mt 24:18). And in recent months I have been sensing that God wants me to begin participating in what I have previously been content to simply write about.

I do not doubt that God communicates with some through dreams and visions, but I cannot recall ever experiencing God speaking to me visually. (I “think” in words and concepts, and am rarely able to “visualize” things even when I want to.)

Others have prayed for me to “receive” the Holy Spirit, and I have at times sought greater fullness of the Spirit through prayer and fasting. But I don’t often “sense His presence,” or have the extraordinary experiences some of my friends describe.

Periodically I have tried speaking in tongues, and I accept this as a significant part of how God ministers in and through some. But tongues is not a regular or significant part of my experience.

Amidst my Charismatic and Pentcostal friends I feel pretty out of touch with the supernatural. So it has come as a quite a surprise that God would enable me to perform a miracle and heal someone.